Category Archives: Racing

A surprisingly breezy NW’ly breeze kept things exciting on the final day of racing, and with three races scheduled, the door was wide open for anything.   The name of the game was shifty shifty, with a nasty bit of … Continue reading →

Though day 1 was glassed out with no racing, we are nearly back on schedule with three races completed today on Port Philip Bay.  A light SSW’ly filled just before our 10 am launch and provided a tricky race course–choppy … Continue reading →

With an anticlimactic final day of racing, the 2010 PIR has died out with a bit of a sputter.  We were scheduled to have one more day of sailing after the split into the medal and classification races, but, as … Continue reading →

Much like yesterday, we sailed in the morning offshore breeze.  Unlike yesterday, however, today our mark was set within 150 m of the beach, making for some very shifty, very crazy top triangles.  Though there was a predominant left trend … Continue reading →

Our early morning start today turned out to provide the best conditions of anyone racing today.  The race committee did a commendable job of managing the Finns and Radials together on the same course, and getting in races before conditions … Continue reading →

Day 2  put us out on the Owen course, the furthest from our launching beach and in an area of the bay we hadn’t done much training previously.  That seemed not quite that big a deal, however, as the breeze … Continue reading →

The Doctor came in, then out, in, out, in again!  Today’s conditions were unlike anything we’ve seen in our training thus far– for the first time, the seabreeze pumped in and then died, got super shifty, and finally, by our … Continue reading →